The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-02

which he was standing by the physical IN
tensity Of his eloquence.
Tn hatct ct. however, was buried last
fall and Is nos Yet unearthed Row soon
the force Of circumstances may bring II ID
( light time alone can determine. one thing,
( however, Is C certain. ii the scalpiug knife IS
I again drawn BY these two men it viii be a
/ fight worth seeing. Cochran Is young, and,
I ike a good wine. improves with age Eel
I lows long ago passed the half mile post Of
life. and unless he has the mental and
physical stamina Of Gladstone, Is liable u
60 down in the encounter
AMOS J. CUMMINGS.
No more remarkable and cosmopolitan
types OF the genus man can be found IN the
world than stamp the corridors Of the New
York hotels An observing man can lose
himself IN a labyrinth Of mysterious cQglta-
tons in ten minutes. if he tries 70 guess the
ideAtitv and purpozes Of even 10 per cent OF
the men who regularly frequent tGe poUuiar
portions OF the big New York hotels. Inere
is a vast difference between the man who IS
constantly seen about the corridors and the
man who lives regularly and dDiaeStlcally
at the hotel. The latter comes up town
from business. hurries to his room. end Is
invisible about the house again until break
fast the next morning, except il very rare
instances OF course there are hotel her
mits, but these men are exceptions. As a
rule the regular guests are strangers TO the
Office and the public part of the house.
The hotel hermit is a distinct creation. |
have one in view now He has lived for
sixteen years at one of the most prominent
OF the Broadway hotels and in that time it
is doubtful if he has been away from the
house more than ten consecutive hours. He
is a heavy jawed, red-faced creature, with
sluggish eyes, ponderous belly and lazy
movements He rises about 10 O'Clock,
spends nalf an hour over his boots. another
half hour with the barber, and then talks
10 the hall boys, telegraph clerks. bar
tenders and other employees OF the house
who VIII take the trouble to listen to MIN.
After this he poses for half hour on a par
ticular flagstone, with his shoulders against
d cert ~xz portion of the portico. II any
body happens to be standing in that place
he waits patiently until he has a chance
to take up his favorite position. He
has a particular chair by a certain win
dow in the dining room, and here he
breakfasts slowly for an hour or more.
After that he resumes his position in front
of the house, or if it is raining takes up a
certain fixed space on a particular bench in
the corridor His life is the acme of monet
ony; he naturally has few friends, for he
never ventures out in the world and his life
and talk are tireSOme TO contemplate and
hear. 1t is impossible even to get him to
attend the theatre. He undoubtedly does
precisely as he wishes TO do. and the whole
world Is willing that he should devote him
self to his fascinating pursuit Of hotel i'm
notation. The men who continually chal-
lenge conjecture are the well-dressed. gen
tlemHnly- appearing and polished men OF the
world who have their mail addressed
to the principal hostelries, who make
all their appointments there, and who
occasionally dine in the hotel restaurants,
No man knows where they do live either,
for their goings and comings are as mys-
FERROUS as the much discussed chances of a
good Yachting breeze the daY before a race
Some of these men OF the world are pro-
jectors Of railroads. others own more or
less pretentious patent rights, and some are
adventures pure and simple who trade
upon the lesser intelligence of their fellows
Not infrequently the great wheel of fortune
throws one or the other to the top. and the
schemer and manipulation of yesterday is the
millionaire Of today. The majority Of the
men are by no means to be COMPOUNDED with
swindlers and cheats They are men of
large mental culture, sturdy fighters
against ill-fortune and staunch and true
friends TO those who have befriended them
They realize fully what the whirligig Of
New York life is, and they stand by with
no capital but their brains, and wait for
their chance to clutch fortune. Occasion
ally they are victims to their own faith in
the schemes they father. | know of one
man who brought an electric motor from
England. and sank over $50 900 of his own
money in it, He built machine shop and
put the motor in it, hired liveried attend
ants and ran the whole thing on a
plan of exalted expense and impressive
ness. He lived in a capital suite of
rooms in the Hoffman House, entertained
gorgeOusly and succeeded in interesting a
great many men of sound financial standing
in his project. In the end, however, it all
fell TO the ground, despite the most expert
manipulation, and all because there was a
screw loose in the machine, and the man
who was promoting it was TOO honest TO do
any dirty work He is pauper now, and
the machine mas been sold for junk, but he
is as blithe and cultured an ornament of the
New York hotel corridors as though he had
established his scheme on a 5000, 900 basis
and REALIZED" on a controlling portion of
the stock. BLAKELY HALL.